Show f for Philippines Believed in in Prospect A 1 Islands I Considered I t f Business Busine s Han Handicap i ap 1 i. i 1 To United United J. J d States It Fight Looms Over Bill to toBar z Sar Bar Filipinos From 1 j r Country WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Howard Scripps Howard Foreign Editor EditorS S WASHINGTON Dec 19 19 Busi Business ness conditions in the United States bring independence to the Philippine Phil Islands IsI at after t three decades seder ander the tho tars Stars and Stripes Some me of or the bitterest foes the Philippine Independence cause causo hab lae iad d A In In congress toda today are com Mm- com com- that t tho We islands Island arc are a n. han han- Heap and a a. a L. L burden and should be enc d off ore or Ot turned loose have havo been Introduced dis- dis the Philippines against stall nall sorts of oC ways Some would hut out Philippine products on the thero ro d that th they y compete with products while whilo others Would ouM bar Filipinos from entering lIe He United States as ns aliens This your apple hn yg y- y ngit too g too 1 attitude has brou brought ht a n term form of ot cr criticism tram front Filipino faders a Jers As long As long as the islands remain uner uner un- un er er r tho American flag fIl ioner Guevara retorts Americana nd rid Filipinos must ISh share are tho the same and tho the tiamo ame n inea together If U either cither Is hi tnt nit to do 10 this ho te declares then theneY ley eY must mul separate DDs F FUEL UEL TO FIRE Section lIon 0 5 j of oC tho the teed Heed bill to sus- sus sus-I sus wd end id alien Imm rallon Into till tho States has added f fuel to therea the tho re rea The senator from Pennsyl- Pennsyl I info anla nr stipulates In this section that n Jr purposes of f exclusion Filipinos lall alli i ibe be considered as aliens Manuel Quezon president of the senate now convalescing con i California wires Ires that to bar Fill Fill- hoe bios from rom the United States while te American flu flag is fl flying ln over oyer overn m n Islands will be beer er very badly re- re in our country countr and antl Com Com- Guevara has hag registered a R arid rid protest on Capitol hill us not forget ho said that ie e United States Slates freely an and of Its It rn took on Its obligations Filipino J people ople and now note noH Using if U sing fins in up to obligations is ising Ing Ing- to bo 60 onerous then thon it i in is up tho bo United States to rid It itself elt the lie du duty It Is Js unfair and nd un American un-American heId he ht heId Id to consider the Filipino people for for one ono purpose and forn for for- n for another As long as the lag lies flies above the ands and the people pa pay nJ ol- ol New ew Interstate Commerce Head ea N jf 1 i ia yr a 4 A A si t Ir ha J JS J'S S 'S 4 l. l Newly cI elected ted led chairman of oC tho in- in commerce commission slon is Js isE E Ezra a Jr above lie He has bc been oen en named a as successor to to- Frank lc lanam was appointed appointed ap- ap pointed to the commission b by PresIdent Pres- Pres dent Ident Coolidge c In tn 1927 I e to it It ItIs Is 15 their thelt right to move about under that flag wherever wherever ever it files flics SITUATION AMAZING OC Of course ho admitted it is 15 the sacred cred dul duly of or congress to protect the American n people ople but If It holding on to tho Philippines is 5 either cither going to o injure tho American people or orthe ortho tho the Filipino people then the ol obvious oll lous thin thing I is to set th Filipinos free i lh There rc is no question th it t an un amazing situation is coming to ahead u a a ahead head in congress Were re a n. vote oto taken lalen today oday on Philippine Philippine- Independence ItIs Itis it its Is s quite quile possible that independence nd 1 would win In the tho past the Democrats have e been traditionally enc and th the Republicans have o been op- op po posed Tho Hoover administration like Ike tho administrations of or Harding and ind Coolidge favors an indefinite postponement of or the Issue and until recently congress congress' has backed tho I. I 11 pulley policy c I nut But ut now something has happened I Certain exponents of or holding on to tho Philippines on the high moral ground round of or tho white whito mans man's burden burden bur hue den arc weakening As long ona n as the burden promised to Ia pay bl big divi dividends the they were for ft It tooth tooth and an and nail nolI but now that certain aspects of or the tho burden ma may Provo prove actually why burdensome burden burdensome wh ome why that's different |